The Star-Spangled ... lyrics to the well-known anthem below. The music was written by British composer and early musicologist John Stafford Smith around 1773, but remained lyric-less until 1814, when ...

Let’s take a line-by-line tour of the history and meaning behind the lyrics ... Star-Spangled Banner" started as a poem, called “The Defence of Fort McHenry.” It was written by Francis Scott ...

By now you’ve probably heard the claim that America’s national anthem, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” is an ... in which a statue of Francis Scott Key, the Maryland lawyer who wrote the ...

Wes Moore and the state government to rededicate the Francis Scott Key Bridge ... and will eventually prevail.” Key, who wrote the poem “The Star-Spangled Banner” while being held prisoner ...